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2012 Draft operating and
capital budget - budgetS PRÉLIMINAIRES de fonctionnement et
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COMMITTEE
RECOMMENDATION
That Council, sitting as Committee of the Whole, approve the Agriculture
and Rural Affairs Committee Draft Operating and Capital Budget as follows:
1.
The Infrastructure Services and Community Sustainability - Planning and
Growth Management Department - Development Review Process (Rural) Budget, as follows;
a)
Operating Resource Requirement (p. 8);
b)
Capital Budget [p. 12 (individual projects pp.
13-23, Fleet p. 14)].
RECOMMANDATION DU COMITÉ
Que le Conseil, siégeant en tant que Comité plénier, d’approuver les
budgets de fonctionnement et d’immobilisation provisoires du Comité de
l’agriculture et des affaires rurales, selon les modalités suivantes :
1.
Services
d’infrastructure et Viabilité des collectivités – Urbanisme et Gestion de la
croissance – Budget du processus d’examen des demandes d’aménagement (rural), pour les besoins suivants :
a)
Besoin
en ressources de fonctionnement (p. 8);
b)
Budget
d’immobilisation [p. 12 (projets individuels p. 13-23,
parc automobile p. 14)].
Documentation
1.
Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee Coordinator’s
report dated 9 November 2011
(ACS2011-CMR-ARA-0009).
2.
Extract of Draft Minutes, 18
November 2011 immediately follows the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee
Coordinator’s report.
Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee
Comité de l'agriculture et des
affaires rurales
9 November 2011 / 9 novembre 2011
Submitted by/Soumis par :
Committee
Coordinator / Coordonnateur du comité
Contact Person/Personne ressource : Christopher Zwierzchowski, Committee
Coordinator / Coordonnateur du comité, City Clerk and Solicitor / Greffier et
Chef du contentieux
(613) 580-2424 ext./poste 21359
Christopher.Zwierzchowski@ottawa.ca
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That the Agriculture
and Rural Affairs Committee consider the relevant portions of the 2012
Operating and Capital Budgets and forward its recommendations to Council, sitting
as Committee of the Whole, for consideration at the meeting to be held November
30, 2011.
Que le Comité de l'agriculture et des affaires rurales examine les sections pertinentes des Budgets
d’immobilisations et de fonctionnement de 2012 et qu’il présente ses
recommandations au Conseil, siégeant à titre de Comité plénier, aux fins
d’examen lors de sa réunion prévue du 30 novembre 2011.
City Council, on 14
September 2011, approved the 2012 Budget Process and Timetable for developing
and approving the 2012 budget, indicating that the individual Committees, Board
and Commission would hold meetings to listen to public delegations, review
their respective budgets and make recommendations to Council. At that time, Council also approved that the
tax supported budgets for the following would be tabled on 26 October:
On 26 October 2011, City Council
adopted the following Motion:
WHEREAS this Council is committed to promoting a culture of fiscal responsibility at
City Hall; and
WHEREAS the Long Range
Financial Plan incorporates a maximum tax increase of 2.5% for the years 2012
to 2014; and
WHEREAS this Council
wishes the Standing Committee and Transit Commission Budget recommendations to
be consistent with the Long Range Financial Plan;
THEREFORE BE IT
RESOLVED that City Council direct each Standing Committee and the Transit
Commission to work within the funding envelope for the budgets in their
mandates, and that any additions to the budget will require offsetting
reductions.
The 2012 Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Committee Draft Operating and Capital Budget is now
before the Committee for the purpose of hearing from public delegations and to
consider and make recommendations to Council.
The Agriculture and
Rural Affairs Committee will review and make recommendations on those portions
of the budget with Rural Implications.
This meeting was advertised in the three daily
newspapers and public delegations will be received by the Committee. As well, there will be four multi-ward
bilingual budget consultation meetings held between the 1st and 4th
of November, in advance of Council's consideration of the Budget to be held on
the 30th of November 2011.
There is no
accessibility impact associated with the tabling of this report.
There are
no legal impediments to implementing the recommendation in this report.
There are no risk
management impediments to implementing the recommendation in this report.
Financial
Implications are identified in the 2012 Draft Operating and Capital Budgets, as
well as in the City Treasurer's Transmittal Report dated 26 October 2011 and
entitled "2012 Draft Operating and Capital Budgets - Tax Supported
Programs", tabled with Council on 26 October 2011.
Document 1 - City
Treasurer's report dated 26 October 2011, entitled 2012 Draft Operating and
Capital Budgets - Tax Supported Programs (issued
previously to all Members of Council and held on file with the City Clerk).
English & French
Document 2 - 2012
Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee Draft Operating and Capital Budgets
(issued previously to all Members of
Council and held on file with the City Clerk).
The Committee Coordinator will forward the
Committee's recommendations to Council for consideration, at the meeting of
November 30, 2011. Budgets will be
amended as per Council deliberation and adoption.
2012 Draft operating and
capital budget –
agriculture and rural affairs committee
budgetS PRÉLIMINAIRES
de fonctionnement
et d’immobilisations
de 2012 - Comité
DE l'agriculture et des affaires rurales
ACS2011-CMR-ARA-0009 City
wide / À l’Échelle de la ville
REPORT RECOMMENDATION:
That the
Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee consider the relevant portions of the
2012 Operating and Capital Budgets and forward its recommendations to Council, sitting
as Committee of the Whole, for consideration at the meeting to be held 30
November 2011.
Chair Thompson introduced Ms. Marian
Simulik, City Treasurer, and thanked her and staff in the City’s Financial
Services Department for their work on the 2012 City Budget. Also present to answer questions was Mr. Alain
Gonthier, Manager, Asset Management, Infrastructure
Services Department. Mr. Derrick Moodie, Manager, Development Review, Rural
Services Branch, Planning and Growth Management Department, spoke to a
PowerPoint slide presentation which served to provide the Committee with a
brief overview of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee’s portion of the
2012 City Budget (a copy of this presentation is held on file with the City
Clerk). Mr. Moodie also noted that the
Transportation portion of the City Budget covers a number of enhancements to
rural Transit services.
The following delegation spoke in
favour of the report recommendation:
·
Ms. Debbie Moore-Caldwell, President, National Capital Heavy Construction
Association.
Ms. Moore-Caldwell lauded the
Committee for supporting infrastructure renewal for rural roads, citing that
the cost of new construction is five times that of operational maintenance.
Following a brief exchange of questions and answers questions on the subjects of rural road construction and infrastructure maintenance, the Committee approved the following Motion forwarding the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee’s recommendations pertaining to its portion of the 2012 City of Ottawa Budget to City Council for its meeting of 30 November 2012.
MOTION
No. ARA 15/1
Moved
by Councillor S. Blais:
That the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee recommend that Council,
sitting as Committee of the Whole, approve the Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Committee Draft Operating and Capital Budget as follows:
1. The
Infrastructure Services and Community
Sustainability - Planning and Growth Management Department - Development Review
Process (Rural) Budget, as
follows;
a) Operating
Resource Requirement (p. 8);
b) Capital Budget [p. 12 (individual projects pp. 13-23, Fleet p. 14)].
CARRIED